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Originally Posted by sailingdog
Nice job on the canoe.  |
Amazing job on the canoe.
It appears from the photo that you did not use any type of stapling to keep the cedar strip in place.
Congratulations, quite an achievement to build and finish your canoe the way you have.
To stay on topic.
My dinnig table is finished in
varnish and I've never thought about the toxicity issues. I guess that once it's cured it doesn't dissipate any more of the thinners in the
varnish.
I read somewhere that once you've given your bright work the number of coats of varnish that you require, you let it sit for about a month (this apparently is time enough for the solvents to leave the surface). Then you can have a two part clear finish (this is nasty stuff, isocyanates) applied over the top of 3 or 4 coats of varnish. Apparently this will not require refinishing for quite some years. We shall see.
You can take your table to an auto spray place and have them clear spray your table. This will produce a surface as hard as that found on car
paint jobs.
Don't know about toxicity here, but the solvents in this
paint might take a while to leave the surface, before you can use it. Maybe several months, I don't know. The paint manufacturer should be able to tell you how long.
I'm finishing a couple of small pieces of brightwork like this at the moment (a timber
cleat and the bracket for the auto pilot, both which I've made), just waiting another week before I take them to the spray painter.